The Serpent's evil serial killer Charles Sobhraj, 79, spotted in London brushing against tourists
17.03.2024 - 00:04
/ ok.co.uk
Freed serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who allegedly murdered 20 backpackers in Asia, has been spotted amongst tourists in London.
The 79-year-old French man was released from a Nepalese prison in 2022 after spending nearly two decades behind bars. Sobhraj, who inspired the hit BBC drama The Serpent in 2021, is suspected of killing at least 20 Western tourists who were travelling through Asia's "hippy trail" in the 1970s and 1980s. Now pictures show him visiting the UK wearing a false beard and wig, while he his being filmed for a documentary.
The Serpent, which starred Tahar Rahim as Sobhraj and Jenna Coleman as his accomplice Marie-Andree Leclerc, told the tale of the con-artist who was said to have drugged, robbed and killed backpackers across Thailand, India and Nepal. In the new Channel 4 documentary The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer, he was filmed on London's Westminster Bridge. He is shown stopping to take pictures of Big Ben and talking about his ability to flee justice.
In the documentary he boasts: “I was like a shadow.” When asked what he would say to someone in London who was afraid he could harm them, Sobhraj replies: “I will say they are free [to have] their feelings and thoughts. What I am doing in this programme is without financial benefits. “I am fed up of all these allegations so I’m going to put forward my facts and let the people decide.
You are the victim of brainwashing by the media.” The show includes tapes of Sobhraj in a Delhi jail, talking about the killing of US tourist Teresa Knowlton, 21, in Bangkok in 1975. Sobhraj recalls: “She said, ‘Did you give me something? Because I feel very funny’. I said, ‘Teresa, I’m sorry to say to you but I think I have to do something bad to you’.”
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